The Sept. 25 Seattle Times includes an article, "Epithet in `Huck Finn' stirs protest / District urged to take Twain book off reading list," by E.J. Gong Jr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is quoted in the book's defense. The article is online at: http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html/huck_092596.html I'm not sure the URL will stay the same after it is no longer part of the day's news. If it is not there when you look for it, go to the paper's search page at http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/index.html Jim Zwick